Fastener for gloves, &amp;c.



No. 7|5,"645. l y Patented Dec. 9, |902,

J.,L. DINKELSPI'EL FASTENER FDR GLOVES, 81.6.'v

(Application med Feb. 19, 1 902.)

(No Model.) v

NTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH L. DINKELSPIEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FASTENER FOR GLOVES, 8:,0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 715,645, dated December9, 1902.

Application led February 19. 1902. Serial No. 94,767. (No model.)

lo all whom/.it mag/concern.-

Be it knownV that I, JOSEPH L. DINKEL- SPIEL, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, inthe county and State of New York,have invented a new and ImprovedFastener for Gloves and other Articles, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description. l

This invention relates to a fastener for two parts of a garment or othercloth, leather, or other structures. `It is particularly intended as aglove-fasten er, since its construction renders it especially applicableto this class of garments. Broadly stated, the fastener is made up of asocket member and a stud member carried, respectively, on the parts tobe joined together. The socket member comprises a thumb-cap and asocket-plate, the latter having pliable spurs which are forced throughthe material of which the glove is formed and caused to curl into thethu mb-cap, thus fastening the thumb-cap and socketpiece rmly togetherand to the glove. The stud member comprises a thimble to which a cap orstud plate is fastened, the thimble being driven through the material ofthe glove and expanded over a thimble-ring, whereby to fasten the partsin place and properly hold the stud, which itself is carried on thecapplate.

My invention resides in certain novel features of construction andrelative arrangement of parts, Which will be fully pointed outhereinafter. V

This specification is an exact description of one example of myinvention, while the claims dene the actual scope thereof.

Referenceis to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is aview of a glove, showing my invention applied. Fig. 2 is anenlarged view showing the outer or stud side of the stud member and theinner or socket side of the socket member, the parts of the fastenerbeing disengaged. Fig. 3 is an enlarged section taken on the line 3 3 ofFig. 2, the parts of the fastener being engaged. Fig. 4C is aperspective view showing the form of the socketplate. Fig. 5 is asectional view on the line 5 5 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 6 is a View of thestud before it is fastened into the stud member.

.The thumb-cap of the socket member is formed of a top `or body plate a,preferably circular in form and having its edges turned laterally andthence returned to form a channel-flange a. Within the top or body platea is aconcavoconvex disk a2, which is fitted in the top or body platebefore the flange a is formed and which has its convex face on the innerlside of the thumb-cap. The bodyplate a, is also slightly bulgedoutward, and these parts a and a2 being thus arranged form an extremelystrong construction.

b indicates the socket-plate, which with the thumb-cap forms the socketmember of the fastener. The socket-plate, as best shown in Figs. 2, 8,and 4;, has a tongue b stamped therefrom, such tongue terminating in acon tracted studded portion b2. The act of forming this tongue b' formsa socket-like slot in the plate b, which slot terminates in a contractedpart b3, adapted to hold the stud of the stud member when the parts ofthe fastener are engaged. This contracted part b3 or the socket properlies at one side of the center or middle of the socket-plate, as shownin Fig. 2. The tongue b lies inward toward the cap-plate, (see Fig. 3,)and the materialV of the socket-plate at the base of the tongue b', atwhich point the tongue joins the socket,- plate, is swaged in, asindicated at b4, so that this swaged part b4 lies very near to the planeof the tongue. The socket-plate is formed on its periphery with a numberof spurs b5. The spurs b5 are preferably spaced equidistant around theperiphery of the socket-plate and are preferably four in number. (SeeFig. 2.) Of these spurs two are located one at each side of theswaged-in part b4 and directly adjacent to the base of the tongue b.Ordinarily the socket-plate would be weakest at this point-namely, atthe base of the tongue b-and by locating the spurs biatthese points thesocket-plate is reinforced and given all necessary strength. Thereforein addition to their other functions the spurs Vperform the service ofstrengthening the socket-plate at points which otherwise would beweakened by the formation of the tongue b and swage b4.

In assembling the parts of the socket member the thumb-cap is placed onthe outer side of the material and the socket-plate is placed on theinner side with its spurs b5 projecting toward the garment. The partsare so shaped relatively to each other that the spurs b5 will liedirectly opposite the inner sides of the channel-iianges a', and thenwhen the thumbcap and socket-plate are forced together by a suitablepress or by other means the spurs b5 pass through the garment and strikeagainst the convex plate a2 of the thumb-cap. The convex plate turns thespurs outward and causes them to curl up inside of the channelilange.This fastens the parts of the socket member securely together, and theyassume the positions relatively to each other shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5shows the manner in which the spurs are curled up in the channel-dange.

The stud member comprises a thimble c, which is formed at its inner endwith an outwardly-projecting annular flange c', and over this iiange isfastened the cap or stud plate c2, such connection being effected byturning down the edges of the stud-plate and clamping them around thefiange c. The stud-plate extends across the thimble and carries the studdcentrally of the plate and thimble. The thimble c is forced through thematerial, as shown, and its outer or lower end is swaged out around athimble-ring c3, thus securely fastening the thimble and the stud-platein the positions shown. The stud comprises a shank or body and a head dof essentially frusto-conical form and having a pit or cavity d2 in itstop. In constructing the stud member the stud is formed separately fromthe other parts after the manner of a rivet, as shown in Fig. 6, and itsreduced extension d3 of the shank is iirst passed through an opening inthe stud-plate and then upset or riveted in place, as shown in Fig. 3.

The two parts of the fastener are connected together by causing the studto be entered into the socket or slot in the socket-plate. Fig. 3 showsthe parts in the act of engagement,andin this viewletit be assumed thatthe socket member is being movable relatively to the stud member in thedirection of the arrow. As the socket member is moved toward the studmember the stud en ters under the swaged part b4 of the socket-plate andpasses along the tongue until the studded extremity b2 of the tonguesnaps into the pit or cavity (Z2, and the shank of the stud will then beheld in the contracted portion or socket proper, b3, of the plate Z9.The swaged portion 294 allows the easy entrance of the stud into thesocket and avoids any possible movement of the parts toward each otherin the line of the axis of the stud. The tongue b holds the studproperly engaged, and owing to the eccentric position of the end portionof the slot or socket b3 in the plate b the pull of the stud on thesocket member is even and the engagement between the parts is renderedmore securein other words, this eccentric positioning of the partscauses the pull to be in a straight line across the true center of thesocket member and avoids any wabbling of the socket member relatively tothe stud member, which Wabbling would tend to dislocate the stud. Y

Various changes in the form and details of my invention may be resortedto at will Without departing from the spirit of my invention. Hence Iconsider myself entitled to all such changes as may lie within theintent of my claims.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- l. A garment orother fastener, comprising a socket plate having a tongue stampedtherefrom, the socket-plate being swaged in at the base of the tongue,for the purpose specified, and spurs formed on the periphery of thesocket-plate, two of said spurs being located one at each side of thesaid sWaged-in part of the socket-plate and directly adjacent to thebase of the tongue therein.

2. A socket member for garment or other fasteners, comprising a top orbody plate having its edges turned laterally and thence returned to forma channel-flange, a concaveconvex disk tted in the top or body plate andhaving its concave face adjacent to the top or body plate and the edgesof the said disk being projected beyond the returned portion of the saidchannelflange, and a socket-plate having a tongue thereon and havingpliable spurs formed on its edges, said spurs being curled up inside ofthe channelflange.

3. A socket member for garment or other fasteners, comprising a top orbody plate having its edges turned laterally and thence returned to forma channel-flange, a concavoconvex disk fitted in the top or body plateand having its concave face adjacent to the top or body plate and theedges of the said disk being projected beyond the returned portion ofthe said channel-liange, and a socket-plate havingr a tongue thereon andhaving pliable spurs formed on its edges, said spurs being curled upinside of the channel-flange, and the said socket-plate being swaged inat the base of the tongue and two of the said spurs being located one ateach side of the swagedin part and directly adjacent to the base of thetongue.

Ll. A garment-fastener, comprising a socket member and a stud member,the socket member being formed of a top or body plate having its edgesturned laterally and thence returned to form a channel-flange, aconcavoconvex disk fitted in the top or body plate and having its edgesextended past the returned portion of the flange thereof, and asocketplate having a tongue stamped thereon, the socket-plate alsohaving a swaged-in part at the base of the tongue and the socket-platefurther having pliable spurs formed on its edges, two of its spurs beinglocated one at each side of the sWaged-in part directly adjacent to thebase of the tongue and said sp urs IOO IIO

being curled up in the annular flange of the top plate, whereby tosecure the socket-plate, the stud member comprising a thimble with anoutwardly-projected annular ange at its inner end, a cap or stud platefastened to said Harige, a stud carried by the stud-plate,

for the purpose specified, and a thimble-ring encircling the lowerportion of the thimble and having said portion of the thimble swaged A

